EPIDEMIC

Off-Duty NYPD Officer Takes His Own Life, the Seventh on the Force This Year

The officer, who has become the seventh on the force this year to die by suicide, had reportedly just recently been promoted to sergeant.

An off-duty NYPD officer was found dead at his home in Staten Island on Saturday in what authorities say was a suicide—the seventh on the force this year. “The tragic news today that another member of the NYPD has been lost to suicide breaks our hearts, and is a deep sorrow felt by all of New York City. To every member of the NYPD, please know this: it is okay to feel vulnerable,” Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill said in a statement. The officer has not yet been identified but was described by The New York Daily News as a transit cop who’d just recently been promoted to sergeant. A gun was reportedly found near his body.